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Mande languages

The Mande languages are a family of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by around 60 million people, chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea…

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Ethnicity
Mandé peoples
Geographic distribution
West Africa
Glottolog
mand1469
ISO 639-5
dmn
Linguasphere
(phylozone) 00- (phylozone)
Linguistic classification
Mande

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Proto-language

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Mande languages

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Mande languages

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related to Further reading · 54
Mande languages → Abidjan, ACCT-ILA, African Languages, An Introduction, Archived, Atlas, Benjamin, Bergman, Berlin, Bernd, Blench, Cambridge University Press, Dallas, Delafosse, Derek, Die Mande-Negersprachen, Elena, Halaoui, Heymann, In Heine
related to Early scholarship · 23
Mande languages → Africa, André Prost, East, Gérard Galtier, He, His, In, It, Joseph Greenberg, Languages, Long, Louis Tauxier, Mandéga Family, Maurice Delafosse, North-West, North-Western High-Sudan Family, Polyglotta Africana, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, South, The
related to Morphosyntactic features · 13
Mande languages → Atlantic, Bantu, Bobo, Congo, Mainly, Mande, Plurality, Pronouns, Sembla, Soninke, Southwestern Mande, Within, Word
related to history · 11
Mande languages → BC, Mande, Mauritania, North, Northern, Southern Sahara, That, Valentin Vydrin, Various, Western, Western Sahara
related to Proto-language · 4
Mande languages → Mande, Proto-Bantu, Proto-Mande, The
Subdivisions · 2
Mande languages → Eastern Mande, Western Mande
Ethnicity · 1
Mande languages → Mandé peoples
Geographic distribution · 1
Mande languages → West Africa
Glottolog · 1
Mande languages → mand1469
ISO 639-5 · 1
Mande languages → dmn

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mande languages family congo proto-mande southern mandé west noun-class classification vydrin language atlantic western africa niger system nasal niger-congo soninke

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Mande languagesEthnicityMandé peoples1.00infobox
Mande languagesGeographic distributionWest Africa1.00infobox
Mande languagesGlottologmand14691.00infobox
Mande languagesISO 639-5dmn1.00infobox
Mande languagesLinguasphere(phylozone) 00- (phylozone)1.00infobox
Mande languagesLinguistic classificationMande1.00infobox
Mande languagesProto-languageProto-Mande1.00infobox
Mande languagesSubdivisionsWestern Mande1.00infobox
Mande languagesSubdivisionsEastern Mande1.00infobox
the absence of a noun-class system should not be taken as probativeinstance ofand that typological criteria0.80text
Mande languagesrelated to Early scholarshipThe0.60section
Mande languagesrelated to Early scholarshipSigismund Wilhelm Koelle0.60section

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